A Sitemap file, what is it?
The Sitemap is as its name suggests, a plan of your site that contains links to all pages of your site.
For a search engine (Google, Yahoo, VeoSearch ...) without a site visit sitemap return to Paris without a plan!
Ie the robot engine will scan your site with links that are accessible but can not index more pages that will be "hidden". Returning to our example with Paris, you will visit convenient locations, but do not linger in the streets.
We focus more closely on the interests of SiteMap for Magento : if the robot indexes the first page of your site, but only indexes for example, not product pages or category pages, it will be referenced as your page home with your featured products, or your introduction. To the benefit is close to zero.
Therefore it may be interesting to take a few minutes to try to create this sitemap for your Magento store. Indeed you may well have the site e-commerce design most of the world, or with more products, if the client does not find you, he shall not visit your site.
The creation of the sitemap will allow you to optimize the ranking of your Magento store for search engines index all your products.
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